I used Simp 2226 recently, and as another contributor mentioned, it could be made without pockets (tape the pocket piece to the skirt before you cut it. This pattern calls for a CB zipper, but that could easily be moved to the side.

I would lightly interface the yoke - and audition a couple of yoke sizes before you settle on one. I found that it ran big, and the skirt sat much farther below the natural waist than the 1" it described. Easy to fix before I closed up the CB seam, but it would have been even easier if I had checked the size ahead of time.

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